In Memory To My Mother

Where is your grave?
Where did you die?
Why did you away?
Why did you leave
Your little girl
That rainy autumn day?

I still can hear
The words you spoke:
"You tell the world, my child."
Your eyes as green
As emeralds
Were quiet and so mild.

You held my hand
Your face was white
And silent like a stone,
You pressed something
Into my palm...
And then...then you were gone.

I suffered, but
I didn't cry:
The pain so fierce, so deep...
It pierced my heart
And squeezed it dry.
And then, I fell asleep.

Asleep in agony
And dreams...
A nightmare that was true...
I heard the shots,
The screams that came
From us, from me and you.

I promised I would
Tell the world...
But where to find the words
To speak of
Innocence and love,
And tell how much it hurts...

About those faces
Weak and pale,
Those dizzy eyes around,
And countless lips
That whispered "help"
But never made a sound...

To tell about
The loss...the grief
The dread of death and cold,
Of wickedness
And misery...
O, No!...it can't be told.

What Does this poem mean to you?

It really brings sadness to how these children that was in the holocaust, how it felt to loose someone just like that, with no reasons to this death. The way that Sonia described every moment and the way her mother looked and felt like, it really takes me to this event as if I was there watching it happen. The phrase that he used of how she felt when her mother died it was something else to what I would think she would feel, I thought she would be crying real hard and weeping for her mother, but it seem that it was such a great of lost that she couldn't do any thing but to just FEEL the PAIN in her heart.

What questions does it raise for you?

Why did the mother tell " You tell the world, my child" what is it that she wants her child to tell the world? Another question was what was the object her mother put in her hand just before she got shot? This poem has some mysterious phrases that i think Sonia wants us to wonder about or she wants to add it in but doesn't want to reveal it to anyone.

For Yom Ha'Shoah

Come, take this giant leap with me
into the other world...the other place
where language fails and imagery defies,
denies man's consciousness...and dies
upon the altar of insanity.

Come, take this giant leap with me
into the other world...the other place
and trace the eclipse of humanity...
where children burned while mankind stood by,
and the universe has yet to learn why
...has yet to learn why.

What Does this poem mean to you?

Well it really shows a lot with the strong sentence that it could mean a lot of things but to me it means that it really was a mysterious event that not even the survivors didn't know why it happened. I got this meaning from " and trace the eclipse of humanity" and the universe has yet to learn why".

What questions does it raise for you?

Why did she say that the universe has yet to learn why? Is there more to this history that hasn't been told yet, something darker?

TREATY OR NO TREATY

Was the Treaty of Versailles- fair or unfair?

I think the Treaty of Versailles was fair for the Germans because they deserved to be punished for they have done to everyone. When I read the rules on the treaty I did think that some of the rule were not fair Germany surrenders all her rights and titles over her overseas countries. Some of the rules that the the people of Germany had to follow were, Germany will respect the independence of Austria, Poland and Czechoslovakia, the German military forces shall be demobilized and reduced not to exceed 100,000 men. Germany tried to blame it on the Jews but as we all know Germany had started the war and I believe that Germany should be the one to end it by signing the treaty. Germany have to pay**for all the causes and damage they made a lot of to a lot of countries. The president of the United States of America and all the other empires agreed that Germany should be punished. Germany had disagreed with the treaty because they think their punishments are not fair, but after a lot of war Germany finally gave in and said that they would agree to the treaty. Overall I think that the Treaty of Versailles is fair to everyone including the Germans.